I used to be a big advocate of the free antiviruses until a couple of years ago. There was a plague of infections and almost every single system I cleaned up had a free antivirus on it. Anecdotal, yes, but there it is. Since then, it's become an unfortunate standard for free AVs to do…

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Bad guys are getting more and more clever. Saw this today on a tech forum - came up on a client's computer shortly after booting up. While I wouldn't expect the average user to be able to decipher a blue screen error, the key point here is that Microsoft has never and will never include a telephone…

I regularly see uTorrent on client's computers - it's software used to download files (often TV shows or movies but can be other legitimate media). I'm not judging. uTorrent, though, has started bundling in a new feature called "Epic Scale" which will use your CPU in the background to generate BitCoin currency for the authors.…